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• When I write for ‘n+1,’ I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I’m not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notion, Convince

• I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

  Emily Bronte

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Everybody, Notion

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that’s not of your choosing simply because you’re out-voted.

  Ira Glasser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Forced, Notion

• Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Notion, Animals

• If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immune, Notion

• The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

  Steven T. Katz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creatures, Notion

• Now everybody’s got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It’s no one elses’ business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

  George Formby

  Topics in Business

  Tags in People, Crazy, Notion

• I rejected the notion that my race or s*x would bar my success in life.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Rejected, Notion

• Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

  George Berkeley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Idea, Notion

• I don’t have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

  Clifford Geertz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notion, Write

• Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

  Clifford Geertz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Things, Notion

• The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

  Christian Lacroix

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realize, Notion

• Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do – at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey – but this is the one that’s a big deal.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ideas, Notion

• Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

  Charley Pride

  Topics in Job, Money

  Tags in Something, Notion

• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Traditional, Recover, Notion

• It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

  James Hillman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notion, Angel

• It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

  Robert Mondavi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Notion, Wine

• Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

  Woody Allen

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Notion

• In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

  Thomas Harrison

  Tags in Archaic, Notion, Dwelling

• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  Lynn Abbey

  Tags in Notion, Vague, Cloudy